Some psychologists who hated Christianity: Freud and Jung.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
His father was bullied by an anti-Semitic Christian, who wanted him to get off the sidewalk. He desired revenge and thought of his father as a coward for humbly stepping onto the roadway. He abandoned Judaism and became opposed to all religion. According to his wife, not being allowed to light the Sabbath candles the first week after her wedding was one of the most upsetting experiences of her life.
Goal
Worked with Charcot in attempt to explain away Catholic phenomena as hysteria. Opened his office of neurology on Easter Sunday 1887 as a display of defiance against Catholicism. Likened himself to Hannibal, whose father forced him to swear vengeance on the Romans. To him the enemy was the Roman Catholic Church. (1)
Perspective On Catholicism
"The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life." (2)
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Jung’s Background
Left Luther’s religion for the occult.
Goal
In a letter to Freud: "I think we must give [psychoanalysis] time to infiltrate into people from many centers, to revivify among intellectuals a feeling for symbol and myth, ever so gently to transform Christ back into the soothsaying god of the vine, and in this way absorb those ecstatic instinctual forces of Christianity for the one purpose of making the cult and the sacred myth what they once were—a drunken feast of joy where man regained the ethos and holiness of an animal." (3)
Perspective On Catholicism
"I am for those who are out of the Church" –Carl Jung, in a letter to Jolande Jacobi, on hearing the news she had converted to Catholicism. (3)Please review these resources for more info:
1 http://tinyurl.com/FreudCharcotAntiCatholic
2 http://www.freud.org.uk/education/topic/10573/freud-‐and-‐religion/
3 https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=545
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